The designers that make up the CPHFW Newtalent supported by Circulose scheme encompass a modern and innovative vision of Nordic design. The designers that showing their collections at Copenhagen Fashion Week as part of CPHFW Newtalent are Nicklas Skovgaard, Alectra Rothschild, Rolf Ekroth, and Stamm.
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NICKLAS SKOVGAARD
Fashion Show Monday January 29 @ 3.00pm-3.30pm
Founded in 2020, the Copenhagen-based brand aims to explore the relationship textiles can hold in expressing narratives through the marriage of unexpected material and classical form. Creating his own textiles that cultivate an exceptional surface, Nicklas Skovgaard taught himself weaving after discovering a small loom and crafting swatches of his own fabric. Expanding on to a bigger surface allowed Nicklas to create larger pieces moulded into jackets, hats and capelets. Constructing two collections a year, each body of work for Nicklas Skovgaard builds upon the last, acting with an evolutionary purpose and building an ever-evolving vocabulary. Orchestrating these classical and strange symphonies within his eponymous textiles and recognizable design, Nicklas Skovgaard is a brand cultivated on the edge of romanticism and realism.
ALECTRA ROTHSCHILD
Fashion Show Monday January 29 @ 4.00pm-4.30pm
Alectra Rothschild / Masculina is a brand built on the notions of craftsmanship, femininity, and high glamour. Alectra is a trained tailor before she started to study fashion. She studied at Beckmans College of Design, MA Fashion under Fabio Piras at Central Saint Martins, and studied sustainability and fashion at The Royal Danish Academy. At this time Alectra trained with the likes of Iris Van Herpen and Anne Sofie Madsen. Alectra got her first job in the fashion industry at Mugler under the creative direction of Casey Cadwallader and has since done freelance work for Alexander McQueen and a collab with Birkenstock.
ROLF EKROTH
Fashion Show Tuesday January 30 @ 11.00am-11.30am
Rolf Ekroth, the Finnish-Swedish designer has one of fashion’s most unusual backstories. While most of his friends opted to study business after high school, this contrarian decided to show them up by studying social work. A few years in, Ekroth realized the field wasn’t for him. After taking a few months off, out of the blue a friend who had noted Ekroth’s interest in clothing, suggested Ekroth try fashion. And he did. Since graduating from Helsinki’s Aalto University in 2015, Ekroth has done several collaborative projects, was a finalist at the Hyères Festival, and won the Alpha Award 2015 (previously Designers’ Nest). He relaunched his namesake label independently in 2020 during the pandemic.
STAMM
Fashion Show Tuesday January 30 @ 1.00pm-1.30pm
Stamm was founded and launched in 2022 by the Danish designer Elisabet Stamm. Stamm is a Scandinavian brand with an international outlook. The brand was announced as winner of the Zalando Sustainability Award upon showing its debut AW23 runway show during Copenhagen Fashion Week. Elisabet describes her approach to the creations as ‘truck poetry’. With a globetrotter family background, bright personality and a dreamy, visionary mind - Stamm's main characteristic is the dualism that can be found in different forms, such as strong vs sensitive, high fashion with a low-key approach, truck vs couture, calm vs dynamic. Diverse meetings, conversations are key to the brand, which is why ‘exchange’ has become an extension to the brand name.
Copenhagen Fashion Week FW 24-25
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